The whole concept of dividing it up into ‘value’ and ‘growth’ strikes me as twaddle. It’s convenient for a bunch of pension fund consultants to get fees prattling about and a way for one adviser to distinguish himself from another. But, to me, all intelligent investing is value investing – acquiring more than you are paying for. You must value the business in order to value the stock.
— Charlie Munger

The best thing a human being can do is to help another human being know more.
— Charlie Munger

Acquire worldly wisdom and adjust your behavior accordingly. If your new behavior gives you a little temporary unpopularity with your peer group then to hell with them.
— Charlie Munger

In my whole life, I have known no wise people (over a broad subject matter area) who didn’t read all the time – none, zero.
— Charlie Munger

Experience tends to confirm a long-held notion that being prepared, on a few occasions in a lifetime, to act promptly in scale, in doing some simple and logical thing, will often dramatically improve the financial results of that lifetime. A few major opportunities, clearly recognizable as such, will usually come to one who continuously searches and waits, with a curious mind that loves diagnosis involving multiple variables. And then all that is required is a willingness to bet heavily when the odds are extremely favorable, using resources available as a result of prudence and patience in the past.
— Charlie Munger

I find it quite useful to think of a free-market economy – or partly free market economy – as sort of the equivalent of an ecosystem. Just as animals flourish in niches, people who specialize in some narrow niche can do very well.
— Charlie Munger

The number one idea is to view a stock as an ownership of the business and to judge the staying quality of the business in terms of its competitive advantage. Look for more value in terms of discounted future cash-flow than you are paying for. Move only when you have an advantage.
— Charlie Munger

Over the very long term, history shows that the chances of any business surviving in a manner agreeable to a company’s owners are slim at best.
— Charlie Munger

It’s not given to human beings to have such talent that they can just know everything about everything all the time. But it is given to human beings who work hard at it – who look and sift the world for a mispriced bet – that they can occasionally find one.
— Charlie Munger

And the wise ones bet heavily when the world offers them that opportunity. They bet big when they have the odds. And the rest of the time they don’t. It’s just that simple.
— Charlie Munger

Mimicking the herd invites regression to the mean.
— Charlie Munger

Develop into a lifelong self-learner through voracious reading; cultivate curiosity and strive to become a little wiser every day.
— Charlie Munger

Acknowledging what you don’t know is the dawning of wisdom.
— Charlie Munger

Above all, never fool yourself, and remember that you are the easiest person to fool.
— Charlie Munger

Determine value apart from price; progress apart from activity; wealth apart from size.
— Charlie Munger

Recognize reality even when you don’t like it – especially when you don’t like it.
— Charlie Munger

Remember that reputation and integrity are your most valuable assets – and can be lost in a heartbeat.
— Charlie Munger

I think track records are very important. If you start early trying to have a perfect one in some simple thing like honesty, you’re well on your way to success in this world.
— Charlie Munger

I’m right, and you’re smart, and sooner or later you’ll see I’m right.
— Charlie Munger

We try more to profit from always remembering the obvious than from grasping the esoteric.
— Charlie Munger

Intelligent people make decisions based on opportunity costs.
— Charlie Munger

If all you succeed in doing in life is getting rich by buying little pieces of paper, it’s a failed life. Life is more than being shrewd in wealth accumulation.
— Charlie Munger

Someone will always be getting richer faster than you. This is not a tragedy.
— Charlie Munger

Spend each day trying to be a little wiser than you were when you woke up. Discharge your duties faithfully and well. Step by step you get ahead, but not necessarily in fast spurts. But you build discipline by preparing for fast spurts. Slug it out one inch at a time, day by day. At the end of the day – if you live long enough – most people get what they deserve.
— Charlie Munger

Over the long term, it’s hard for a stock to earn a much better return that the business which underlies it earns. If the business earns six percent on capital over forty years and you hold it for that forty years, you’re not going to make much different than a six percent return – even if you originally buy it at a huge discount. Conversely, if a business earns eighteen percent on capital over twenty or thirty years, even if you pay an expensive looking price, you’ll end up with one hell of a result.
— Charlie Munger

You must have the confidence to override people with more credentials than you whose cognition is impaired by incentive-caused bias or some similar psychological force that is obviously present. But there are also cases where you have to recognize that you have no wisdom to add – and that your best course is to trust some expert.
— Charlie Munger

The safest way to try to get what you want is to try to deserve what you want. It’s such a simple idea. It’s the golden rule. You want to deliver to the world what you would buy if you were on the other end.
— Charlie Munger

I’m not entitled to have an opinion unless I can state the arguments against my position better than the people who are in opposition. I think that I am qualified to speak only when I’ve reached that state.
— Charlie Munger

Thinking that what’s good for you is good for the wider civilization, and rationalizing foolish or evil conduct, based on your subconscious tendency to serve yourself, is a terrible way to think.
— Charlie Munger

If you don’t allow for self-serving bias in the conduct of others, you are, again, a fool.
— Charlie Munger

Avoid working directly under somebody you don’t admire and don’t want to be like.
— Charlie Munger

Intense interest in any subject is indispensable if you’re really going to excel in it.
— Charlie Munger

Never, ever, think about something else when you should be thinking about the power of incentives.
— Charlie Munger

Fixable but unfixed bad performance is bad character and tends to create more of itself, causing more damage to the excuse giver with each tolerated instance.
— Charlie Munger

Everybody engaged in complex work needs colleagues. Just the discipline of having to put your thoughts in order with somebody else is a very useful thing.
— Charlie Munger

This is really crucial: Warren [Buffett] is one of the best learning machines on this earth. The turtles who outrun the hares are learning machines. If you stop learning in this world, the world rushes right by you.
— Charlie Munger

To me, it’s obvious that the winner has to be very selective. It’s been obvious to me since very early in life. I don’t know why it’s not obvious to very many other people.
— Charlie Munger

Mankind invented a system to cope with the fact that we are so intrinsically lousy at manipulating numbers. It’s called the graph.
— Charlie Munger

Some people seem to think there’s no trouble just because it hasn’t happened yet. If you jump out the window at the 42nd floor and you’re still doing fine as you pass the 27th floor, that doesn’t mean you don’t have a serious problem. I would want to address the problem right now.
— Charlie Munger

Organized common (or uncommon) sense is an enormously powerful tool. There are huge dangers with computers. People calculate too much and think too little.
— Charlie Munger

Almost all good businesses engage in ‘pain today, gain tomorrow’ activities.
— Charlie Munger

If you buy something because it’s undervalued, then you have to think about selling it when it approaches your calculation of its intrinsic value. That’s hard. But if you buy a few great companies, then you can sit on your $%@. That’s a good thing.
— Charlie Munger

A lot of people with high IQs are terrible investors because they’ve got terrible temperaments. And that is why we say that having a certain kind of temperament is more important than brains. You need to keep raw irrational emotion under control. You need patience and discipline and an ability to take losses and adversity without going crazy. You need an ability to not be driven crazy by extreme success.
— Charlie Munger

There ‘s no way that you can live an adequate life without [making] many mistakes.
— Charlie Munger

In investment management today, everybody wants not only to win, but to have a yearly outcome path that never diverges very much from a standard path except on the upside. Well, that is a very artificial, crazy construct. That’s the equivalent in investment management to the custom of binding the feet of Chinese women.
— Charlie Munger

Life in part is like a poker game, wherein you have to learn to quit sometimes when holding a much loved hand.
— Charlie Munger

Any year that passes in which you don’t destroy one of your best loved ideas is a wasted year.
— Charlie Munger

A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything but the value of nothing.
— Oscar Wilde

A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
— Oscar Wilde

A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone’s feelings unintentionally.
— Oscar Wilde

A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
— Oscar Wilde

A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.
— Oscar Wilde

A man can’t be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
— Oscar Wilde

A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.
— Oscar Wilde

A man’s face is his autobiography. A woman’s face is her work of fiction.
— Oscar Wilde

A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
— Oscar Wilde

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
— Oscar Wilde

A true friend stabs you in the front.
— Oscar Wilde

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.
— Oscar Wilde

Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
— Oscar Wilde

Alas, I am dying beyond my means.
— Oscar Wilde

All art is quite useless.
— Oscar Wilde

All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.
— Oscar Wilde

All that I desire to point out is the general principle that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.
— Oscar Wilde

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.
— Oscar Wilde

Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
— Oscar Wilde

Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.
— Oscar Wilde

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.
— Oscar Wilde

America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
— Oscar Wilde

An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him.
— Oscar Wilde

An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.
— Oscar Wilde

Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.
— Oscar Wilde

Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.
— Oscar Wilde

Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing.
— Oscar Wilde

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.
— Oscar Wilde

As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.
— Oscar Wilde

As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.
— Oscar Wilde

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
— Oscar Wilde

Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
— Oscar Wilde

Biography lends to death a new terror.
— Oscar Wilde

By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
— Oscar Wilde

Charity creates a multitude of sins.
— Oscar Wilde

Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.
— Oscar Wilde

Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
— Oscar Wilde

Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
— Oscar Wilde

Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.
— Oscar Wilde

Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.
— Oscar Wilde

Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
— Oscar Wilde

Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.
— Oscar Wilde

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
— Oscar Wilde

Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.
— Oscar Wilde

Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
— Oscar Wilde

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.
— Oscar Wilde

Everything popular is wrong.
— Oscar Wilde

Experience is one thing you can’t get for nothing.
— Oscar Wilde

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
— Oscar Wilde

Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
— Oscar Wilde

Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.
— Oscar Wilde

Hatred is blind, as well as love.
— Oscar Wilde

He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.
— Oscar Wilde

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.
— Oscar Wilde

How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.
— Oscar Wilde

I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.
— Oscar Wilde

I am not young enough to know everything.
— Oscar Wilde

I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying.
— Oscar Wilde

I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.
— Oscar Wilde

I can resist everything except temptation.
— Oscar Wilde

I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.
— Oscar Wilde

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
— Oscar Wilde

I have nothing to declare except my genuis.
— Oscar Wilde

I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.
— Oscar Wilde

I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.
— Oscar Wilde

I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.
— Oscar Wilde

I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.
— Oscar Wilde

I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.
— Oscar Wilde

I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.
— Oscar Wilde

I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.
— Oscar Wilde

I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.
— Oscar Wilde

I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.
— Oscar Wilde

I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead.
— Oscar Wilde

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
— Oscar Wilde

If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.
— Oscar Wilde

If one plays good music, people don’t listen and if one plays bad music people don’t talk.
— Oscar Wilde

If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.
— Oscar Wilde

If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.
— Oscar Wilde

If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn’t. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.
— Oscar Wilde

Illusion is the first of all pleasures.
— Oscar Wilde

In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.
— Oscar Wilde

In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever.
— Oscar Wilde

In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.
— Oscar Wilde

In married life three is company and two none.
— Oscar Wilde

In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.
— Oscar Wilde

It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.
— Oscar Wilde

It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
— Oscar Wilde

It is always the unreadable that occurs.
— Oscar Wilde

It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But… it is better to be good than to be ugly.
— Oscar Wilde

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
— Oscar Wilde

It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.
— Oscar Wilde

It is only by not paying one’s bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.
— Oscar Wilde

It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned.
— Oscar Wilde

It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.
— Oscar Wilde

It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.
— Oscar Wilde

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.
— Oscar Wilde

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.
— Oscar Wilde

Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.
— Oscar Wilde

Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
— Oscar Wilde

Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.
— Oscar Wilde

Life is too important to be taken seriously.
— Oscar Wilde

Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.
— Oscar Wilde

Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
— Oscar Wilde

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
— Oscar Wilde

Memory… is the diary that we all carry about with us.
— Oscar Wilde

Men always want to be a woman’s first love – women like to be a man’s last romance.
— Oscar Wilde

Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed.
— Oscar Wilde

Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
— Oscar Wilde

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.
— Oscar Wilde

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
— Oscar Wilde

Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one’s mistakes.
— Oscar Wilde

Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.
— Oscar Wilde

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.
— Oscar Wilde

No man is rich enough to buy back his past.
— Oscar Wilde

No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.
— Oscar Wilde

No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.
— Oscar Wilde

Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.
— Oscar Wilde

Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.
— Oscar Wilde

Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.
— Oscar Wilde

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.
— Oscar Wilde

One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.
— Oscar Wilde

One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.
— Oscar Wilde

One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.
— Oscar Wilde

One’s past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.
— Oscar Wilde

One’s real life is so often the life that one does not lead.
— Oscar Wilde

Only the shallow know themselves.
— Oscar Wilde

Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.
— Oscar Wilde

Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.
— Oscar Wilde

Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
— Oscar Wilde

Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
— Oscar Wilde

Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
— Oscar Wilde

Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are.
— Oscar Wilde

Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.
— Oscar Wilde

Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.
— Oscar Wilde

Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.
— Oscar Wilde

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
— Oscar Wilde

Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.
— Oscar Wilde

Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.
— Oscar Wilde

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
— Oscar Wilde

Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.
— Oscar Wilde

The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.
— Oscar Wilde

The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
— Oscar Wilde

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
— Oscar Wilde

The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.
— Oscar Wilde

The cynic knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
— Oscar Wilde

The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.
— Oscar Wilde

The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.
— Oscar Wilde

The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.
— Oscar Wilde

The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world.
— Oscar Wilde

The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it’s dead for you.
— Oscar Wilde

The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
— Oscar Wilde

The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.
— Oscar Wilde

The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.
— Oscar Wilde

The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it… I can resist everything but temptation.
— Oscar Wilde

The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
— Oscar Wilde

The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.
— Oscar Wilde

The salesman knows nothing of what he is selling save that he is charging a great deal too much for it.
— Oscar Wilde

The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
— Oscar Wilde

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
— Oscar Wilde

The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.
— Oscar Wilde

The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
— Oscar Wilde

The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.
— Oscar Wilde

The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.
— Oscar Wilde

The world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible, and those who do the improbable.
— Oscar Wilde

There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.
— Oscar Wilde

There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating – people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.
— Oscar Wilde

There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
— Oscar Wilde

There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.
— Oscar Wilde

There is always something infinitely mean about other people’s tragedies.
— Oscar Wilde

There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.
— Oscar Wilde

There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.
— Oscar Wilde

There is no sin except stupidity.
— Oscar Wilde

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.
— Oscar Wilde

There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.
— Oscar Wilde

There is nothing so difficult to marry as a large nose.
— Oscar Wilde

There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.
— Oscar Wilde

There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
— Oscar Wilde

There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life’s sores the better.
— Oscar Wilde

There’s nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It’s a thing no married man knows anything about.
— Oscar Wilde

These days man knows the price of everything, but the value of nothing.
— Oscar Wilde

This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.
— Oscar Wilde

Those whom the gods love grow young.
— Oscar Wilde

To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.
— Oscar Wilde

To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
— Oscar Wilde

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
— Oscar Wilde

True friends stab you in the front.
— Oscar Wilde

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
— Oscar Wilde

What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
— Oscar Wilde

What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.
— Oscar Wilde

When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.
— Oscar Wilde

When good Americans die they go to Paris.
— Oscar Wilde

When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.
— Oscar Wilde

When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.
— Oscar Wilde

Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.
— Oscar Wilde

Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
— Oscar Wilde

While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.
— Oscar Wilde

Who, being loved, is poor?
— Oscar Wilde

Why was I born with such contemporaries?
— Oscar Wilde

Woman begins by resisting a man’s advances and ends by blocking his retreat.
— Oscar Wilde

Women are made to be loved, not understood.
— Oscar Wilde

Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.
— Oscar Wilde

Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.
— Oscar Wilde

Work is the curse of the drinking classes.
— Oscar Wilde

Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.
— Paulo Coelho

Beauty is the greatest seducer of man.
— Paulo Coelho

Every blessing ignored becomes a curse.
— Paulo Coelho

Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time.
— Paulo Coelho

If you start by promising what you don’t even have yet, you’ll lose your desire to work towards getting it.
— Paulo Coelho

Life was always a matter of waiting for the right moment to act.
— Paulo Coelho

Love can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always takes us somewhere.
— Paulo Coelho

Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.
— Paulo Coelho

No one can lie, no one can hide anything, when he looks directly into someone’s eyes.
— Paulo Coelho

One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.
— Paulo Coelho

Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream.
— Paulo Coelho

The two worst strategic mistakes to make are acting prematurely and letting an opportunity slip; to avoid this, the warrior treats each situation as if it were unique and never resorts to formulae, recipes or other people’s opinions.
— Paulo Coelho

The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.
— Paulo Coelho

Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering.
— Paulo Coelho

We have to stop and be humble enough to understand that there is something called mystery.
— Paulo Coelho

When a person really desires something, all the universe conspires to help that person to realize his dream.
— Paulo Coelho

When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.
— Paulo Coelho

You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one. Each day is a different one, each day brings a miracle of its own. It’s just a matter of paying attention to this miracle.
— Paulo Coelho

You drown not by falling into a river, but by staying submerged in it.
— Paulo Coelho

You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.
— Paulo Coelho

Anything that won’t sell, I don’t want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success.
— Thomas A. Edison

Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!
— Thomas A. Edison

Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.
— Thomas A. Edison

Discontent is the first necessity of progress.
— Thomas A. Edison

Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.
— Thomas A. Edison

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
— Thomas A. Edison

Great ideas originate in the muscles.
— Thomas A. Edison

Hell, there are no rules here – we’re trying to accomplish something.
— Thomas A. Edison

His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine.
— Thomas A. Edison

I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.
— Thomas A. Edison

I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.
— Thomas A. Edison

I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.
— Thomas A. Edison

I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.
— Thomas A. Edison

I know this world is ruled by infinite intelligence. Everything that surrounds us- everything that exists – proves that there are infinite laws behind it. There can be no denying this fact. It is mathematical in its precision.
— Thomas A. Edison

I never did a day’s work in my life. It was all fun.
— Thomas A. Edison

I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.
— Thomas A. Edison

I start where the last man left off.
— Thomas A. Edison

If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves.
— Thomas A. Edison

It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.
— Thomas A. Edison

Just because something doesn’t do what you planned it to do doesn’t mean it’s useless.
— Thomas A. Edison

Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
— Thomas A. Edison

Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth.
— Thomas A. Edison

Nearly every man who develops an idea works it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then he gets discouraged. That’s not the place to become discouraged.
— Thomas A. Edison

Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.
— Thomas A. Edison

One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But… I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.
— Thomas A. Edison

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
— Thomas A. Edison

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
— Thomas A. Edison

Religion is all bunk.
— Thomas A. Edison

Restlessness and discontent are the first necessities of progress.
— Thomas A. Edison

Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
— Thomas A. Edison

Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won’t work.
— Thomas A. Edison

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
— Thomas A. Edison

The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil.
— Thomas A. Edison

The body is a community made up of its innumerable cells or inhabitants.
— Thomas A. Edison

The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around.
— Thomas A. Edison

The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work.
— Thomas A. Edison

The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.
— Thomas A. Edison

The value of an idea lies in the using of it.
— Thomas A. Edison

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.
— Thomas A. Edison

There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking.
— Thomas A. Edison

There is no substitute for hard work.
— Thomas A. Edison

There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.
— Thomas A. Edison

There’s a way to do it better – find it.
— Thomas A. Edison

They say President Wilson has blundered. Perhaps he has, but I notice he usually blunders forward.
— Thomas A. Edison

To have a great idea, have a lot of them.
— Thomas A. Edison

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
— Thomas A. Edison

To my mind the old masters are not art; their value is in their scarcity.
— Thomas A. Edison

Waste is worse than loss. The time is coming when every person who lays claim to ability will keep the question of waste before him constantly. The scope of thrift is limitless.
— Thomas A. Edison

We don’t know a millionth of one percent about anything.
— Thomas A. Edison

What a man’s mind can create, man’s character can control.
— Thomas A. Edison

What you are will show in what you do.
— Thomas A. Edison

When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes.
— Thomas A. Edison

Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have.
— Thomas A. Edison

A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
— John D. Rockefeller

Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
— John D. Rockefeller

Competition is a sin.
— John D. Rockefeller

Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It’s to see my dividends coming in.
— John D. Rockefeller

Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
— John D. Rockefeller

Don’t blame the marketing department. The buck stops with the chief executive.
— John D. Rockefeller

Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.
— John D. Rockefeller

Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.
— John D. Rockefeller

Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people.
— John D. Rockefeller

I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.
— John D. Rockefeller

I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living.
— John D. Rockefeller

I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty.
— John D. Rockefeller

I believe that thrift is essential to well-ordered living.
— John D. Rockefeller

I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.
— John D. Rockefeller

I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.
— John D. Rockefeller

I have ways of making money that you know nothing of.
— John D. Rockefeller

I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money’s sake.
— John D. Rockefeller

I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people’s efforts than 100% of my own efforts.
— John D. Rockefeller

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.
— John D. Rockefeller

If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.
— John D. Rockefeller

It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.
— John D. Rockefeller

Next to doing the right thing, the most important thing is to let people know you are doing the right thing.
— John D. Rockefeller

Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one’s aim.
— John D. Rockefeller

The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.
— John D. Rockefeller

The most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit… a reputation, character.
— John D. Rockefeller

The only question with wealth is, what do you do with it?
— John D. Rockefeller

The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets.
— John D. Rockefeller

As a rock star, I have two instincts, I want to have fun, and I want to change the world. I have a chance to do both.
— Bono

Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
— Bono

Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not. The church is going to have to become the conscience of the free market if it’s to have any meaning in this world – and stop being its apologist.
— Bono

It’s so sweet, I feel like my teeth are rotting when I listen to the radio.
— Bono

It’s stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.
— Bono

Music can change the world because it can change people.
— Bono

My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.
— Bono

Rock ‘n’ roll is ridiculous. It’s absurd. In the past, U2 was trying to duck that. Now we’re wrapping our arms around it and giving it a great big kiss.
— Bono

The less you know, the more you believe.
— Bono

To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.
— Bono

U2 is an original species… there are colours and feelings and emotional terrain that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.
— Bono

We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.
— Bono

Bodybuilding is much like any other sport. To be successful, you must dedicate yourself 100% to your training, diet and mental approach.
— Arnold Schwarzenegger

Failure is not an option. Everyone has to succeed.
— Arnold Schwarzenegger

For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.
— Arnold Schwarzenegger

Help others and give something back. I guarantee you will discover that while public service improves the lives and the world around you, its greatest reward is the enrichment and new meaning it will bring your own life.
— Arnold Schwarzenegger

I am a big believer in education, because when I grew up in Austria – when I grew up in Austria I had a great education. I had great teachers.
— Arnold Schwarzenegger

I didn’t leave bodybuilding until I felt that I had gone as far as I could go. It will be the same with my film career. When I feel the time is right, I will then consider public service. I feel that the highest honor comes from serving people and your country.
— Arnold Schwarzenegger

I just use my muscles as a conversation piece, like someone walking a cheetah down 42nd Street.
— Arnold Schwarzenegger

I knew I was a winner back in the late sixties. I knew I was destined for great things. People will say that kind of thinking is totally immodest. I agree. Modesty is not a word that applies to me in any way – I hope it never will.
— Arnold Schwarzenegger

I know a lot of athletes and models are written off as just bodies. I never felt used for my body.
— Arnold Schwarzenegger

I welcome and seek your ideas, but do not bring me small ideas; bring me big ideas to match our future.
— Arnold Schwarzenegger

I’ll be back.
— Arnold Schwarzenegger

If it bleeds, we can kill it.
— Arnold Schwarzenegger

If it’s hard to remember, it’ll be difficult to forget.
— Arnold Schwarzenegger

If you work hard and play by the rules, this country is truly open to you. You can achieve anything.
— Arnold Schwarzenegger

In our society, the women who break down barriers are those who ignore limits.
— Arnold Schwarzenegger

In this country, it doesn’t make any difference where you were born. It doesn’t make any difference who your parents were. It doesn’t make any difference if, like me, you couldn’t even speak English until you were in your twenties.
— Arnold Schwarzenegger

Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn’t matter.
— Arnold Schwarzenegger

Maria is the best reason to come home.
— Arnold Schwarzenegger

Money doesn’t make you happy. I now have $50 million but I was just as happy when I had $48 million.
— Arnold Schwarzenegger

My body is like breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I don’t think about it, I just have it.
— Arnold Schwarzenegger

My own dreams fortunately came true in this great state. I became Mr. Universe; I became a successful businessman. And even though some people say I still speak with a slight accent, I have reached the top of the acting profession.
— Arnold Schwarzenegger

My relationship to power and authority is that I’m all for it. People need somebody to watch over them. Ninety-five percent of the people in the world need to be told what to do and how to behave.
— Arnold Schwarzenegger

Start wide, expand further, and never look back.
— Arnold Schwarzenegger

Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.
— Arnold Schwarzenegger

The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow. This area of pain divides the champion from someone else who is not a champion. That’s what most people lack, having the guts to go on and just say they’ll go through the pain no matter what happens.
— Arnold Schwarzenegger

The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.
— Arnold Schwarzenegger

The resistance that you fight physically in the gym and the resistance that you fight in life can only build a strong character.
— Arnold Schwarzenegger

The worst thing I can be is the same as everybody else. I hate that.
— Arnold Schwarzenegger

Training gives us an outlet for suppressed energies created by stress and thus tones the spirit just as exercise conditions the body.
— Arnold Schwarzenegger

What we face may look insurmountable. But I learned something from all those years of training and competing. I learned something from all those sets and reps when I didn’t think I could lift another ounce of weight. What I learned is that we are always stronger than we know.
— Arnold Schwarzenegger

When the people become involved in their government, government becomes more accountable, and our society is stronger, more compassionate, and better prepared for the challenges of the future.
— Arnold Schwarzenegger

You can scream at me, call me for a shoot at midnight, keep me waiting for hours – as long as what ends up on the screen is perfect.
— Arnold Schwarzenegger

You know, nothing is more important than education, because nowhere are our stakes higher; our future depends on the quality of education of our children today.
— Arnold Schwarzenegger

After a certain point, money is meaningless. It ceases to be the goal. The game is what counts.
— Aristotle Onassis

I have no friends and no enemies – only competitors.
— Aristotle Onassis

If women didn’t exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
— Aristotle Onassis

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.
— Aristotle Onassis

The more you own, the more you know you don’t own.
— Aristotle Onassis

The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.
— Aristotle Onassis

To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.
— Aristotle Onassis

We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.
— Aristotle Onassis

A goal is a dream with a deadline.
— Napoleon Hill

Action is the real measure of intelligence.
— Napoleon Hill

All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
— Napoleon Hill

All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.
— Napoleon Hill

Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.
— Napoleon Hill

Before success comes in any man’s life, he’s sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That’s exactly what the majority of men do.
— Napoleon Hill

Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.
— Napoleon Hill

Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
— Napoleon Hill

Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you ready or not, to put this plan into action.
— Napoleon Hill

Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
— Napoleon Hill

Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.
— Napoleon Hill

Edison failed 10, 000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.
— Napoleon Hill

Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought.
— Napoleon Hill

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
— Napoleon Hill

Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed on an equal or greater benefit.
— Napoleon Hill

Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win – essential to success.
— Napoleon Hill

Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.
— Napoleon Hill

Fears are nothing more than a state of mind.
— Napoleon Hill

First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.
— Napoleon Hill

Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.
— Napoleon Hill

Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing.
— Napoleon Hill

Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind’s eye, and you will be drawn toward it.
— Napoleon Hill

Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.
— Napoleon Hill

If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.
— Napoleon Hill

If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.
— Napoleon Hill

If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water’s edge.
— Napoleon Hill

It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.
— Napoleon Hill

It is always your next move.
— Napoleon Hill

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.
— Napoleon Hill

It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.
— Napoleon Hill

Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.
— Napoleon Hill

Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.
— Napoleon Hill

Money without brains is always dangerous.
— Napoleon Hill

More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.
— Napoleon Hill

Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.
— Napoleon Hill

Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price.
— Napoleon Hill

No accurate thinker will judge another person by that which the other person’s enemies say about him.
— Napoleon Hill

No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.
— Napoleon Hill

No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.
— Napoleon Hill

No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind.
— Napoleon Hill

One must marry one’s feelings to one’s beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one’s life.
— Napoleon Hill

Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.
— Napoleon Hill

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.
— Napoleon Hill

Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
— Napoleon Hill

Procrastination is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.
— Napoleon Hill

Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.
— Napoleon Hill

Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.
— Napoleon Hill

Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.
— Napoleon Hill

The battle is all over except the “shouting” when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be.
— Napoleon Hill

The best way to sell yourself to others is first to sell the others to yourself.
— Napoleon Hill

The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.
— Napoleon Hill

The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
— Napoleon Hill

The man who does more than he is paid for will soon be paid for more than he does.
— Napoleon Hill

The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.
— Napoleon Hill

The starting point of all achievement is desire.
— Napoleon Hill

The way to develop decisiveness is to start right where you are, with the very next question you face.
— Napoleon Hill

The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.
— Napoleon Hill

There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge.
— Napoleon Hill

There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.
— Napoleon Hill

Think and grow rich.
— Napoleon Hill

Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.
— Napoleon Hill

Understand this law and you will then know, beyond room for the slightest doubt, that you are constantly punishing yourself for every wrong you commit and rewarding yourself for every act of constructive conduct in which you indulge.
— Napoleon Hill

Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.
— Napoleon Hill

War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.
— Napoleon Hill

We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted.
— Napoleon Hill

When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.
— Napoleon Hill

When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.
— Napoleon Hill

Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent.
— Napoleon Hill

You can start right where you stand and apply the habit of going the extra mile by rendering more service and better service than you are now being paid for.
— Napoleon Hill

You give before you get.
— Napoleon Hill

You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.
— Napoleon Hill

Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.
— Napoleon Hill

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.
— Napoleon Hill

A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject.
— Winston Churchill

A joke is a very serious thing.
— Winston Churchill

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
— Winston Churchill

A man does what he must – in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures – and that is the basis of all human morality.
— Winston Churchill

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
— Winston Churchill

A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn’t happen.
— Winston Churchill

A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.
— Winston Churchill

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
— Winston Churchill

Although personally I am quite content with existing explosives, I feel we must not stand in the path of improvement.
— Winston Churchill

Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.
— Winston Churchill

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.
— Winston Churchill

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
— Winston Churchill

Baldwin thought Europe was a bore, and Chamberlain thought it was only a greater Birmingham.
— Winston Churchill

Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver. The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver, the less he demands in slaughter.
— Winston Churchill

Before Alamein we never had a victory. After Alamein we never had a defeat.
— Winston Churchill

Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.
— Winston Churchill

Continuous effort – not strength or intelligence – is the key to unlocking our potential.
— Winston Churchill

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities… because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
— Winston Churchill

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
— Winston Churchill

Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.
— Winston Churchill

Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.
— Winston Churchill

Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old.
— Winston Churchill

Eating words has never given me indigestion.
— Winston Churchill

Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.
— Winston Churchill

Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.
— Winston Churchill

For good or for ill, air mastery is today the supreme expression of military power and fleets and armies, however vital and important, must accept a subordinate rank.
— Winston Churchill

For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.
— Winston Churchill

From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.
— Winston Churchill

Great and good are seldom the same man.
— Winston Churchill

He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
— Winston Churchill

Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.
— Winston Churchill

History is written by the victors.
— Winston Churchill

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
— Winston Churchill

However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.
— Winston Churchill

I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is a much better policy to prophesy after the event has already taken place.
— Winston Churchill

I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours which sticks up out of the Atlantic.
— Winston Churchill

I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.
— Winston Churchill

I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
— Winston Churchill

I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.
— Winston Churchill

I am easily satisfied with the very best.
— Winston Churchill

I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
— Winston Churchill

I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting.
— Winston Churchill

I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
— Winston Churchill

I cannot pretend to be impartial about the colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones, and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.
— Winston Churchill

I have been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who get drunk.
— Winston Churchill

I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.
— Winston Churchill

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.
— Winston Churchill

I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.
— Winston Churchill

I like a man who grins when he fights.
— Winston Churchill

I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.
— Winston Churchill

I never worry about action, but only inaction.
— Winston Churchill

I was only the servant of my country and had I, at any moment, failed to express her unflinching resolve to fight and conquer, I should at once have been rightly cast aside.
— Winston Churchill

I’m just preparing my impromptu remarks.
— Winston Churchill

If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favorable reference to the devil in the House of Commons.
— Winston Churchill

If the Almighty were to rebuild the world and asked me for advice, I would have English Channels round every country. And the atmosphere would be such that anything which attempted to fly would be set on fire.
— Winston Churchill

If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another.
— Winston Churchill

If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.
— Winston Churchill

If you are going through hell, keep going.
— Winston Churchill

If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce.
— Winston Churchill

If you have an important point to make, don’t try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time – a tremendous whack.
— Winston Churchill

If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.
— Winston Churchill

If you’re going through hell, keep going.
— Winston Churchill

In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.
— Winston Churchill

In those days he was wiser than he is now; he used to frequently take my advice.
— Winston Churchill

In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.
— Winston Churchill

In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.
— Winston Churchill

In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.
— Winston Churchill

India is a geographical term. It is no more a united nation than the Equator.
— Winston Churchill

It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.
— Winston Churchill

It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right.
— Winston Churchill

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
— Winston Churchill

It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.
— Winston Churchill

It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see.
— Winston Churchill

It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.
— Winston Churchill

It is no use saying, ‘We are doing our best.’ You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
— Winston Churchill

It was the nation and the race dwelling all round the globe that had the lion’s heart. I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar.
— Winston Churchill

Kites rise highest against the wind – not with it.
— Winston Churchill

Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.
— Winston Churchill

Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.
— Winston Churchill

Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it.
— Winston Churchill

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
— Winston Churchill

Most people stumble over the truth, now and then, but they usually manage to pick themselves up and go on, anyway.
— Winston Churchill

Mr. Attlee is a very modest man. Indeed he has a lot to be modest about.
— Winston Churchill

My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.
— Winston Churchill

My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and if need be during all meals and in the intervals between them.
— Winston Churchill

My wife and I tried two or three times in the last 40 years to have breakfast together, but it was so disagreeable we had to stop.
— Winston Churchill

Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.
— Winston Churchill

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.
— Winston Churchill

Never, never, never give up.
— Winston Churchill

“No comment” is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again.
— Winston Churchill

No crime is so great as daring to excel.
— Winston Churchill

No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered with a searching but at the same time a steady eye.
— Winston Churchill

No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.
— Winston Churchill

Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.
— Winston Churchill

Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.
— Winston Churchill

Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.
— Winston Churchill

One does not leave a convivial party before closing time.
— Winston Churchill

One ought never to turn one’s back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!
— Winston Churchill

Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.
— Winston Churchill

Personally I’m always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
— Winston Churchill

Play the game for more than you can afford to lose… only then will you learn the game.
— Winston Churchill

Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.
— Winston Churchill

Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.
— Winston Churchill

Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.
— Winston Churchill

Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn’t happen.
— Winston Churchill

Really I feel less keen about the Army every day. I think the Church would suit me better.
— Winston Churchill

Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.
— Winston Churchill

Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all.
— Winston Churchill

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.
— Winston Churchill

Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.
— Winston Churchill

Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.
— Winston Churchill

Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft.
— Winston Churchill

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
— Winston Churchill

Success is going from failure to failure without a loss of enthusiam.
— Winston Churchill

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
— Winston Churchill

Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer.
— Winston Churchill

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
— Winston Churchill

The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst.
— Winston Churchill

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
— Winston Churchill

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.
— Winston Churchill

The first quality that is needed is audacity.
— Winston Churchill

The great defense against the air menace is to attack the enemy’s aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure.
— Winston Churchill

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
— Winston Churchill

The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read.
— Winston Churchill

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
— Winston Churchill

The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it.
— Winston Churchill

The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.
— Winston Churchill

The price of greatness is responsibility.
— Winston Churchill

The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.
— Winston Churchill

The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.
— Winston Churchill

The short words are best, and the old words are the best of all.
— Winston Churchill

The truth is incontrovertible, malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end; there it is.
— Winston Churchill

There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.
— Winston Churchill

There are two things that are more difficult than making an after-dinner speech: climbing a wall which is leaning toward you and kissing a girl who is leaning away from you.
— Winston Churchill

There is no such thing as a good tax.
— Winston Churchill

There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion.
— Winston Churchill

There is nothing more exhilarating than to be shot at without result.
— Winston Churchill

These are not dark days: these are great days – the greatest days our country has ever lived.
— Winston Churchill

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.
— Winston Churchill

This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read.
— Winston Churchill

Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.
— Winston Churchill

To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.
— Winston Churchill

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.
— Winston Churchill

To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.
— Winston Churchill

Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.
— Winston Churchill

True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
— Winston Churchill

Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.
— Winston Churchill

War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can’t smile, grin. If you can’t grin, keep out of the way till you can.
— Winston Churchill

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.
— Winston Churchill

We are all worms. But I believe that I am a glow-worm.
— Winston Churchill

We are asking the nations of Europe between whom rivers of blood have flowed to forget the feuds of a thousand years.
— Winston Churchill

We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.
— Winston Churchill

We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty.
— Winston Churchill

We do not covet anything from any nation except their respect.
— Winston Churchill

We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.
— Winston Churchill

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
— Winston Churchill

We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
— Winston Churchill

We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.
— Winston Churchill

We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.
— Winston Churchill

We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.
— Winston Churchill

We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.
— Winston Churchill

When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.
— Winston Churchill

When the war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies will begin.
— Winston Churchill

When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.
— Winston Churchill

When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
— Winston Churchill

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.
— Winston Churchill

You can always count on Americans to do the right thing – after they’ve tried everything else.
— Winston Churchill

You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.
— Winston Churchill